{"id":158895,"date":"2025-05-01T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=158895"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:01:16","slug":"wright-states-college-of-science-and-mathematics-celebrates-achievements-of-first-year-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/05\/01\/wright-states-college-of-science-and-mathematics-celebrates-achievements-of-first-year-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State\u2019s College of Science and Mathematics celebrates achievements of first-year students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 100 Wright State University students and their families gathered in the Student Union Atrium to celebrate a major milestone: completing their first year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=wright+state+college+of+science+and+math&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">College of Science and Mathematics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hosted by the college, the event recognized the hard work and perseverance of first-year students with food, prizes, games and photo opportunities. Four students were also randomly awarded $500 scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are here to celebrate the achievements of our first-year students,\u201d said Ay\u015fe \u015eahin, Ph.D., dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. \u201cThey\u2019ve completed two semesters of rigorous science and mathematics training with us, and they\u2019ve worked hard and learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event gave students an opportunity to socialize with peers and mingle with faculty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">First-year neuroscience major Anmol Saini said he appreciates the sense of community he\u2019s experienced since arriving at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s more personalized, you get to connect better with other people,\u201d said Saini. \u201cIt\u2019s really uplifting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u015eahin hopes the celebration will inspire other Wright State colleges to recognize first-year students in a similar way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m really hope that the rest of the colleges will be inspired to do the same,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 Wright State University students and their families gathered in the Student Union Atrium to celebrate a major milestone: completing their first year in the College of Science and Mathematics. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/05\/01\/wright-states-college-of-science-and-mathematics-celebrates-achievements-of-first-year-students\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":158898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,725,727,715,746,4293,2061,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-science-mathematics","category-student-union","category-undergraduate","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158899,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158895\/revisions\/158899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}